Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-19
Special to THE MINER
CAPITAL DOINGS.
It. Patrick's Day-District Court Pro.
csedings-New Process Of Re.
ducink Ores.

HELENA, March 16.-Notwithstandin
the vigorous protest of Bishop Brondel
arrangements have been completed for .
grand ball to be given by the Irish-Amer;
can Society tomorrow night. Many goot
Catholics will, however, forego the pleasur,
expressed wish.
The following business was transacted ir
the District Court:
Territory >s. Beahon and Harrington
defendants pleaded not guilty and each de
mand separate trials. Trials set for Thurs
day. March II.
| Territory vs.. Beahon and Harrington;
second case; same proceedings as above
and same order.
! Territory vs. John G. Rex; defendant
pleads not guilty to Indictment; trial set
for Thursday, March II.
Territory vs. Sinclair; defendant pleads
not guilty. :
Territory VS.. Harrington: plea OF not
guilty entered.
Territory vs. Yuen Quist; forgery; de-
fault entered and drecognizance forfeited.
Territory VS.. John He'll, forging and al
tering checks; tried to jury; found guilty.
Remanded for sentence.
FAINT vs.. Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany and eight other parallel cases dis.
missed; plaintiffs given leave to amend by
interlineation. This case involves the
right of way of tho Northern Pacific
through lands claimed by settlers after the
grant, and the decision denies the right Of
the settlers to sue for damages in such
cases. The decision is based ON FORMER
case before the Supreme Court.
James A. Potter, of Chicago, who has
been here for some time in the interest OF
his new process for treating ores, has sue
ceeded in interesting men and money in his
invention, and a company has been formed
for the purpose to give the scheme
fair trial on Montana ores, as
soon as desirable location
can be found. Those interested have
formed the Potter Mining, Smelling & Re-
fning Company by the election OF T. J.
Merrill, of Helena, President; W. D. Pink
ston, OF Shoshone, Idaho. Vice. President;
Charles E. Baldwin, of Minneapolis, Secre-
tary, and John West, of Minneapolis,
Treasurer. The secret OF the new process is
the affinity of precious and base metals.
It consists in smelling and reducing the ore
with the usual furnace, tapping off q por-
tion Of the molten mixture Of slags and
metal into q milled lead bath, showering
such mixture with the melted lead derived
from the bath to alloy the precious metal
Herewith, the gangue and base metals be-
ing permitted to overflow therefrom
and ESCAPE, treating the alloy with
metallic zinc, when it has become very rich
with the precious metal, separating the re-
sultant zinc alloy from the quiescent bath
and simultaneI uslv subjecting other por-
tiors OF melted slags and metals drawn
from the furnace to treatment in the lead
bath as before, whereby the reduction and
of the precious metals are ef
fected. During the continuous working of
the furnace the process may be applied to
any present furnace, when the lead has
taken up all the gold it will contain. It is
very rich, indeed, a ton being worth
81 900 to $4,000. This is the advan-
tage OF the process. No matter what the
condition of the ores, whether rich or low |
grade dry or refractory, the operation is |
the same. The same result is reached, |
and instead OF shipping away las at pres |
sent) an alloy worth $3.50 ton, the base
bullion is worth $4,000. No stock has |
yet been placed on the market.